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the truth . He owned that though he had thought it right as he ever should to comply with the advice of the honored Committee , this had greatly pained his mind j for what were penal statutes to a Christian minister ?
Mi . Rutt next rose and said that , he must take the liberty of being irregular and proposing a toast which no one in the room but the chairman would hear with ~
out high satisfaction ; but before he proposed it , he would beglea \ e to jnake a few remarks . For many years be had associated in
that room with gentlemen , some present , in promoting various objerts tending as he believed to the melioration of society ; but he never met theife with so much
pleasure as on these occasions . He was grieved to hear it stated by a reverend gentleman whose observations he had listened to with much interest ^ that there were some of our brethren who
stood aloof irom our measures , because they objected to them . What he would ask , was the object of the labours of the learned who had so successfully advocated the Unitarian cause ? Was it not
to produce that state of things which this institution is intended to bring about ? Was it not to bring truth down from the college to the cottage ? Would they have been satisfied with the prospect of niak'higa few converts from among the men of letters , whose inquiries and sentiments should not be
known beyond their closets ? Would they have considered the end of their labours accomplished , unless the pure doctrines / of the gospel were carried to the poor j * He concluded with proposing the health of a gentleman who * in a
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double capacity , was entitled to the thanks of the meeting ; who bad conferred a favour on the com , pany , by presiding over it on the
prest-nt occasion , and who had devoted to the society in another office so much of that time which was so highly valued by men of business .
Our Chairman and Treasurer . Mr . Christie said that , he found that the persons present were disposed to reward to the utmost and more than to reward the exertions , however humble ,
of every individual engaged in their cause ; but that if good intentions and efforts to the best of his power , could entitle him to their approbation , he would put in his claim for some small pou tion of it .
Mr . FrenDj vnth the leave of the chairman , would propose a toast , very proper in his opinion for the occasion , and which he did not doubt would be well received by the large company which he saw before him with much
satisfaction . The toast would refer to an academical institution for Christian ministers . Before he gave it , however , or remarked
upon it , he would take the opportunity of explaining himself concerning what he had said about learning last year , which he found had been misunderstood . He held
that it was necessary that ministers of the Christian religion should understand the original languages of the Bible , and that learning would then be most gloriously
employed , when those that possessed it made it the business of their lives to giv £ Christianity to the poor exactly as the apostles would h&ve given ij ^ had they lived in our times . There was use enoug h
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S 64 i Intelligence — Unitarian Fund .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1811, page 364, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2417/page/44/
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